mdlbear | Done Since 2019-03-10 (Reply)

So. Productive week? I made two major posts (on Git for Poets and climate change), plus two birthday posts (for me and Colleen, the latter doubling as a s4s post). And some progress on $GIG (about 2k words, out of a projected maybe 10K).

I've been down to visit Colleen roughly every other day, alternating with (caregiver) V. Rather glad I haven't been trying for a job that would require commuting, though I guess I've proved that it would be possible. I'm also not sure I could handle full-time work of any kind at this point. Housework and family work have been uncomfortably close to full time the last couple of weeks.

The cats have been very supportive. We have excellent cats.

Notes & links:

0310Su
* up 7am; W=198.4, S=6:40; shower
* some work on tutorial - unit 2, installation
: DST, which I only noticed because my computer disagreed with the microwave.
: C still in bed; there are a walker and wheelchair in the room but she hasn't been out.
didn't sleep well because IV painful
@ ‘Creepy’ Assignment: Pay Attention to What Strangers Reveal in Public - NYT
: 2ish C out of bed and in the wheelchair; went for an explore. Plink.
: Cygnus's touchpad flaky. Editing on console. :P
: PT was here 2:30ish; she took a few steps with the walker.
: 4ish touchpad seems mostly better; apparently got slightly wet.
-> I spoke too soon. Turned it off -- fortunately moving it with the trackpoint
suppresses the touchpad jitter. Keep wanting to use it, but I'll get by.
% drive home was brutal - straight into the sun for way too long, too many times
-> put my floppy hat into my backpack.
% worn out? restless? Maybe it's recovery from stress? I can't tell.
: 9pm touchpad seems stable now. But good to know that Cygnus is quite usable without

0311Mo
* Up 5ish; S=6:02;
* am: worked about 2 hours on $GIG. Mostly research and experimentation rather than
actual writing.
* $1800 to E before 3/21 for tuition and books. Took 1500 out of UB "savings" acct.
& Looks like my preferred eBook reader is going to be nov.el, an Emacs mode for reading
.epub files. (the package is just called "nov")
~ went to garage plannung to restack boxes; too heavy. Many cardboard boxes are
deteriorating from damp floors or excessive load. Going to have to make some actual
bookshelves down there.
& extended my word-count program (originally for NaBloPoMo) to handle drafts as well

0312Tu
* Up 2ish; S=3:52; back to bed ~4 but couldn't get back to sleep
@ Kherishdar's Exception | Episode 38: Swimming, Falling (caught up now)
" That feeling you have when you leave something undone that you know you shouldn’t,
and the longer you put it off, the harder it becomes to face, and the worse the
feeling of guilt and shame becomes, until it feeds on itself? " Ouch!
* practice: When I Go, Ripple
: arrived 11:30ish; PT was there; she had walked from the bed to the wheelchair parked
about 6' from the foot of the bed, and back. She also has a bad cold and is having
trouble breathing. Lots of tears.
: Sang Lily et. al. after her second PT appointment.
: 3pm PA (physician assistant, i.e. not a doctor) came in briefly. Nebulizer every 4
hours. Fever but it's going down. Waiting for a urine culture.
@ How I changed the law with a GitHub pull request | Ars Technica DC government
keeps the authoritative copy on GitHub. The article describes the process of
correcting a typo.
* speech therapist. mostly cognitive and memory assessment. She did fine.
* $116 to C to cover Prime membership. $A'?
* poke RC guests about travel

0313We my birthday; laundry
* up 6:30ish; W=198.4, S=6:58;
: lots of birthday wishes on FB. -> 37 as of 6pm
: calls from C and E
: V down in Edmonds with C
% still (0312) no idea what I want
~ merge celebration with C's on Saturday
& ended up spending almost the entire day on the climate change post. May sit on it for
a while and plan on posting tomorrow or Friday, because I don't know how to end it.
: FB has been slow-to-nonexistant most of today. Seems to be mostly back.
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0314Th World Kidney Day, Pi day
* up 5:30; W=199, S=5:33;
: naturally, one of the slipper socks is missing.
* Plan to leave by 9am
* 11:30 care conference in C's room. Didn't get names and departments, unfortunately
: nurse persuaded her to take a lorazepam. helped a lot with the crying jag
: PT - walked 114', with only a brief sit midway.
@ Homepage - World Kidney Day
KEEP CALM AND GO PURPLE WORLD KIDNEY DAY 14 MARCH | Keep Calm-o-Matic
% 1:30 really quite shaky. Not clear what's going on. low blood sugar?
-> had ice water and 2 brownies; we'll see if that helps.
: apparently 🌈 (U+1F308) is a unicode rainbow. Gnome terminal recognizes it;
apparently the font Emacs is using doesn't.
🌈 Rainbow Emoji :rainbow:
@ Google's Three Gender Emoji Future
: C went to bed early for a nap; I left ~4:15.
% having what appears to be a muscle spasm. Since it's on the left side of my chest,
took an aspirin when I got home ~6:30. -> 7:04 B=145/86, P=68

0315Fr
* awake 3:30ish; drifted but didn't really get back to sleep. Ticia cuddle.
* up 6ish; S=4:33
% muscle spasm(s?) aren't bothering me; okay then.
@ Deadly heatwaves could affect 74 percent of the world’s population (ysabetwordsmith)
paper: Global risk of deadly heat | Nature Climate Change Paywalled but abstract free
@ Bitcoin use tied to global warming – University of Hawaiʻi System News
Greenhouse gas triggering more changes than we can handle – University of Hawaiʻi
* ordered new BREVO Electric Kettle double-wall, 1500W
* changed water filter in fridge.
% 12:55 looked in fridge; nothing looked like lunch. Wondering whether that could
indicate a problem. -> made fried rice, which is at least tasty.
* worked on the tutorial
@ posted Climate Tragedy
& emailed copy of ysabetwordsmith | Poem: "The Diary of the Human Race" to Mom

0316Sa Colleen's birthday
* Awake 3:30ish; dozed a little between 4 and 6. Ticia most of the time.
* up 630; S=3:32;
* Plink, songbook
* she wants flowers -- get them at Safeway on the way down. leave a little before 9am
-> caught the 9:30; found purplish-blue phals. (there were already white phals in the
room, thanks -- we think -- to aunt!G.
* gummi fiber
: she's taking a shower, with the help of the OT.
* noon meet N and G at C's room
-> G looked; apparently phals are okay for cats
-> The Fox, The October Country, Lock-Keeper, Lily et.al., The Mary Ellen Carter
~ updated body-text.html. Not working correctly in steve/Songs; lgf still relies on
SSI, so it works. But I'm pretty sure I had it working at one point.
-> ok, maybe the partials need a .mustache extension, not .html? That doesn't work
either. Weird.